By Michael C. Brodsky, Robert S. Baker, and Latif M. Hamed. 491 pp., illustrated. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1995. $150. ISBN 0-387-94464-8.
This small textbook seeks to bridge the fields of pediatricsand neuro-ophthalmology. It reflects the three authors' distinctiveapproaches to their subject and, like many multiauthored compendiums,reads like a series of authoritative monographs. This styleaccounts for considerable overlap of topics. But few medicalstudents or physicians will read this book cover to cover. Mostreaders will use it as a manual to guide them in evaluatinga child with decreased vision, double vision, optic atrophy,nystagmus, or other neuro-ophthalmic symptoms and signs. Theywill find much sensible advice on techniques of examination,the description of the clinical syndrome, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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